Unless Andrew Bynum and Pau Gasol find a flow on the floor together soon, Bynum could begin the regular season on the Lakers' bench.

"It has been mentioned," Lakers consultant Tex Winter said of the coaching staff's internal discussions. "We played pretty well last year without him."

If Lakers head coach Phil Jackson were still toting that cane around, he'd have spent most of training camp pointing it up at Bynum and Gasol, both 7 feet tall, and what they have been doing wrong as a twin-tower tandem.

"Right now, they're very clumsy; they're not working well together," Jackson said. "We've got a group that played very well together last year. There are some things that we have to discuss and see how long we drag this out – or how quickly we facilitate it, because I think we have got the ability to play exceptionally well if we use all our skill players."

No need to go all crazy. Tex simply said it was mentioned. Not "talked about", or "discussed", or "considered". They'll be mentioning and throwing around a lot of ideas during the preseason, and probably well into the season also.

Well depending upon the team we are facing we could start either Bynum or Pau. Just switch them out, its no big deal. If they cant find away to work together on the same time or at least start together just keep one on the bench. As for the toughness issue, its not like bynum is gone. hes on the bench. if pau is getting pushed around again, just put bynum in or if it will work, both of them. having one of them on the bench keeps us very deep and lethal especially to those whos front isnt very strong. one center whos fast and agile, and other whos strong, big and physical.

Bynum on the bench is picking offense over defense for the billionth time. It's wrong, it's stupid and if it goes into the regular season imo it will be costly. Bynum masks the defensive deficiencies, enables funneling, limits dribble penetration. For it all to come together it has to get practice time and game time to get in sync. For freaking once value defense over the triangle Jackson. This is infuriating.

Bynum on the bench is picking offense over defense for the billionth time. It's wrong, it's stupid and if it goes into the regular season imo it will be costly. Bynum masks the defensive deficiencies, enables funneling, limits dribble penetration. For it all to come together it has to get practice time and game time to get in sync. For freaking once value defense over the triangle Jackson. This is infuriating.

Thank God I'm not the only one who thinks Phil values his precious triangle more than defense haha